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[dust4ngel <dust4ngel@xxxxxxxxx>]

my contributions to the 'select a theme' pile, roughly in descending order
of preference.  comments follow each:


   1. http://templates.arcsin.se/demo/simple-organization-website-template/
      - minimal
      - nice block treatment
      - nice comments treatment
      http://templates.arcsin.se/demo/simple-organization-website-template/comments.html
   2. http://demo.themesmania.com/?theme=city_magazine
      - would recolor header obviously
      - excellent block treatment, good text treatment
      - styling for drupal types (this is a drupal 6 theme)
      - extreme layout flexibility:
      http://demo.themesmania.com/city_magazine/content/block-flexibilitys
   3.
   http://themeforest.net/item/solid-business-solution-htmlcss-template/full_screen_preview/233219
      - minimal
      - nice block, text treatment
   4.
   http://themeforest.net/item/brightness-html-theme/full_screen_preview/236692
      - minimal
      - decent text, block treatment
   5.
   http://themeforest.net/item/creative-design-portfolio-gallery-html-template/full_screen_preview/212409
      - text should maybe be darker, bigger


/dust


On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 8:40 PM, dust4ngel <dust4ngel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> with regard to selecting / evaluating themes, i wanted to suggest some
> guidelines:
>
> things to focus on:
>
>    - header style (logo area (we'll use our own logo), menu and navigation
>    styles)
>    - text treatment (font styles, font sizes, text spacing, link styles
>    and color, header styles)
>    - block styling and spacing (side bar spacing, border styles)
>    - available regions (is there a styled footer? a styled side bar?)
>
> things to pay less attention to:
>
>    - pictures on the site
>    - how content blocks happen to be laid out
>       - if there are three footer blocks, we can have four, etc
>       - if there is a side bar on the home page, we can remove it for that
>       page, etc
>       - regions can be enabled/disabled on any page
>
> in other words, realize that the theme we pick will define how things *can
> * look.  we will be able to move things around in any theme.
>
> /dust
>
>
>
> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 6:41 PM, dust4ngel <dust4ngel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> #1 : group communication
>>
>> *requirements:*
>>
>>
>>    - documentation of static information: what we've built, who people
>>    are, etc
>>    - calendar of upcoming events: meetings, meet-ups, important dates
>>    - task management: what tasks are open, who is assigned to what
>>    - off-line discussion: conversations not in real time
>>
>> *
>> implementation*
>>
>> solution 1)
>>
>>
>>    - documentation: drupal books (wikis)
>>    - calendar of events: drupal entities with date fields
>>    - development task management: launch pad
>>    - development discussion: launch pad
>>    - non-development tasks: drupal (a la our issue tracker on beta)
>>    - non-development discussion: drupal forums / organic groups
>>
>>
>> *add notifications to drupal
>>
>> solution 2)
>>
>> dedicated 3rd party software (to be researched by eddie)
>>
>> #2 : status of /r/rpac
>>
>>    - change /r/rpac to /r/osdf once site launches
>>
>> #3 : site theme
>>
>> - find a good theme on the web and skin our site with it
>>     - possible sources:
>>         - http://themeforest.net/
>>         - http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/browse/popular/
>>     - toast, kage, eddie, moparx will pick a set to vote on
>>     - others can contribute candidates if they wish
>>
>>
>> /kage
>>
>
>